Can you remember where you were on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon? Emmy nominated British television director Rick Stroud has been obsessed with the moon since childhood, and here provides the culmination of that passion. His book is an absorbing cornucopia of all things lunar, celebrating everything from the physics that created the moon to the technology that took us there, from Babylonian astronomers thousands of years before Christ to the Greek, Roman, and Arab scientists who paved the way for the Renaissance, as well as the moon's profound presence in myth, culture, and art around the world.